Student Colloquia
The AnthroCircle Student Colloquium Series provides an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to present their ideas while benefiting from feedback from fellow students and faculty. Students often present drafts of research papers, rehearse conference presentations, or convene round-table discussions around a particular theme of interest. AnthroCircle Student Colloquia are held on Thursdays at noon in room 5230 of the Social Sciences Building.
Here is the fall 2009 schedule of Colloquia:
September 24: Jason Hopper
Anthropological Approaches to Democracy: a Round-Table Discussion
October 1: Jason Erb
City of water, city of smoke: Materiality and the cultural history of Osaka
October 15: Gregg Jamison
Contemporary Steatite Carving in Udaipur, Rajasthan: Modeling Sources of Variation in Harappan Seal Carving Techniques
October 22: Melissa Reisland
Conservation of Javan Gibbons (Hylobates moloch) in a Sacred Forest
October 29: Ayeshah Iftikhar
(colloquium topic TBD)
November 5: Erika Robb Larkins
Tales from the “Big Sewer”: Violence and Consumption in a Rio de Janeiro Shantytown
November 12: Heather Walder
Ashoka’s Rock Edicts: Permanent Monuments on Dynamic Landscapes
November 19: Alison Carter (postponed until spring semester)
Early Historic Trade Networks in Cambodia: Preliminary Results from a Study of Stone and Glass Beads
Spring 2009 Colloquia included:
February 12 – Charitie Hyman
A Spiritual Revelation in the Carpathians: Ukrainian Native Faith as Ethnic Nationalism
February 19 – Jared Cahners
Roads to places, roads as places, roads against places: Exploring a technology of space in space
February 26 – Jason Hopper
Anthropology and Development: A Round‐Table Discussion
March 26 – Lisa Bintrim
We’re From the West, and We’re Here to Help: Discourse in Volunteer Narratives
April 2 – Noah Theriault
The German-American Ideology: Wisconsin’s “Drinking Culture” as a Controlling Process
April 9 – Chris Butler
Grasping for Revelation: Tensions of Secrecy and Publicity in Masonic Monuments
April 16 – Zach Throckmorton
Integrating the Sub‐disciplines of Anthropology: A Round‐Table Discussion
April 22* – David Weber
Changing Sacredness and Historical Memory of Moscow’s Red Square
* Wednesday meeting *
September 24 Jason Hopper
Anthropological Approaches to Democracy:
a Round-Table Discussion
October 1 Jason Erb
City of water, city of smoke:
Materiality and the cultural history of Osaka
October 15 Gregg Jamison
Contemporary Steatite Carving in Udaipur, Rajasthan: Modeling Sources of Variation in Harappan Seal Carving Techniques
October 22 Melissa Reisland
Conservation of Javan Gibbons (Hylobates moloch)
in a Sacred Forest
October 29 Ayeshah Iftikhar
(colloquium topic TBD)
November 5 Erika Robb Larkins
Tales from the “Big Sewer”:
Violence and Consumption in a Rio de Janeiro Shantytown
November 12 Heather Walder
Ashoka’s Rock Edicts:
Permanent Monuments on Dynamic Landscapes
November 19 Alison Carter
Early Historic Trade Networks in Cambodia:
Preliminary Results from a Study of Stone and Glass Beads
